A school haka performance is gaining millions of views across TikTok — and inspiring people around the world to learn about Māori culture. Performed inside a gymnasium and captured by TikTok user ...

A video of a father welcoming his son at the airport with an emotional Haka, a ceremonial dance of the Māori people, has warmed countless netizens’ hearts. The now-viral clip, shared by suspended ...

Sometimes it can feel as if the haka’s primal intensity is diluted by its sheer ubiquity. Take the recent America’s Cup, where New Zealand skipper Peter Burling filed into a Barcelona auditorium ...

The haka is one of rugby’s best known traditions, with the ceremonial Maori dance performed pre-match by New Zealand rugby sides before international fixtures. Haka were traditionally performed for a ...

Laie, Hawaii • You've seen it on TV or at a football game — men in formation, bending knees and arms in synchronized gestures, chanting unfamiliar words in unison, grunting, scowling. The exotic ...

New Zealand celebrated its gold medal in women’s Olympic Rugby 7s with a special version of the haka, showing all the fierceness and focus that had seen them become worthy winners against France in ...

CHICAGO — It's become a familiar rite to anyone who has watched a New Zealand team play in international sporting events. The Haka, a traditional Maori war dance, is performed by the New Zealand team.

WELLINGTON — Members of rival New Zealand gangs gathered in unity on Wednesday to slap their thighs, thump their chests and stick out their tongues in a traditional Maori haka to commemorate the ...

A series of chants, grunts and stomps from some wedding guests, along with chest thumps and tongue wagging, recently drove one New Zealand bride to tears. It also prompted her and the groom to join ...

A Kiwi actor has caused a stir after performing a naked haka at a 'sacred' place in Romania. Manu Bennett performed the act at Sarmizegetusa Regia, a Unesco World Heritage site in the ancient capital ...

A major row has erupted over the disruption of a Sikh religious procession (nagar kirtan) by members of a far-right group in South Auckland, New Zealand.